0 unable to leave your home, especially because you are ill:
She's been housebound since the accident.
1 unable to leave home, esp. because of illness or injury:
Ever since the accident she’s been housebound.
She is in very poor health and is housebound.
The question on the ability to get out of the house and walk down the road was not asked of people who were housebound.
Planning for death but not serious future illness : qualitative study of housebound elderly patients.
She found a strong need for housebound and institutionalised older women to continue to engage with their church.
She didn't go out at all really, she was housebound.
If a person is limited by disability or ill-health, they risk becoming isolated and housebound.
Optimum use of the service was achieved by restricting the service to the housebound.
Housebound housewives - a followup study of a phobic anxiety state.
